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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

If you
need your art fix for the month of July (and I know I do!),
here are
some
shows that you won't want to miss! This month, the USA (and subsequently Seattle) is celebrating independence! If 4th of July just isn't enough time to celebrate with colourful sparkles, fire, and food, try one of these: World UFO Day (2nd), Build a Scarecrow Day (5th), Teddy Bear Picnic Day (10th), Bastille Day (14th), Cow Appreciation Day (15th), National Ice Cream Day (20th), National Lasagna Day (29th), and more! This is also a fantastic month to appreciate your local artists and craftsfolk who help make Seattle such a unique and independednt community. Summer art walks are some of the best!

LAST CHANCE:

"Crow/Raven: Magic & Mystery" at ArtEast. “To know the crow is to know ourselves,” writes John Marzluff, award-winning author of In the Company of Crows and Ravens. The
strange familiarity of crows and ravens has intrigued humans for
centuries, inspiring mythic interpretation, artistic expression, and
scientific inquiry. “Crow/Raven: Magic and Mystery” brings together
these human responses to crows through two art exhibitions, artist
talks, and public lectures. The series runs through July 12 at
the artEAST Art Center and Blakely Hall in the Issaquah Highlands.

"Deep Pulls: A Screen printing Art Show" at Ltd Gallery. A look into the childhood of some of the Northwest's top Screen Printers. Growing up, those
obscure references of pop culture become as important to us as the
mainstream icons we all know so well. We revel in their uniqueness that
solidifies their presence in our memories, and we truly feel connected
to them as they are special…to just us. Show runs thru 13 July!

Abmeyer + Wood - "In the Realm of the Fantastic" by Ford Crull. The artist is fascinated by the power of symbols.
Hearts, wings, crosses and abstract geometric forms fill his paintings,
all part of a unique visual vocabulary consistent across the artist’s
body of work.

AXIS Pioneer Square - "In Danger" (encore) by Justin Kane Elder.This series of work is intended to give voice to the
disturbing amount of endangered species across the planet. In our short
life span we have witnessed multiple species being eradicated from the
planet at an alarming rate. Every subject presented in this body of work
is vanishing. Soon there will only be photographic evidence left of their existence. Flatcolor Gallery - "Hooked on a Feeling" by Vic20. Flatcolor Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition from bay area graffiti icon Vic20!Greg Kucera Gallery - "Kinetic Sculptures" by John BuckLinda Hodges Gallery - "Fear of Volcanoes" by Ryan Molenkamp. Solo exhibition of a new series of paintings on panel and paper.

The Fremont Art Walk ~ Friday, 4 July from 6-9pm. This month the Fremont art walk falls on 4th of July, so most businesses in the neighbourhood will be closed on Friday. There will be art available all month long, though! Selected shows:Fremont Jewelry Design - Art by proprietor Lisa MagettariPel'Meni Dumpling Tzar - The HappyTime Apocalypse art collective takes over Pel'Meni!Tiny Ninja Cafe - A Bill Murray themed group show

The Port Orchard Art Walk (April-November) ~ Saturday, 5 July from 2-5pm. Over
30 artists set up their work inside and outside of businesses along Bay
Street, up Sidney Avenue and down Harrison Streets. Some artists will
actually be demonstrating their art. Many businesses serve food and
beverages.

The Capitol Hill Art Walk ~ Thursday, 10 July from 5-9pm. Selected shows:Cloud Gallery - "Narratives & Dialogs" by Jeff Mihalyo.The artist discusses world and philosophical issues
through a multifaceted system of symbolic and narrative compositions.
Each painting emphasizes a need for balance in order to explore the
complexity of the theme. He conveys the need for balance through a
poetic arrangement of his subjects and
by presenting multiple viewpoints of an issue within the painting’s
narrative. This multi-dimensional approach to the portrayal of a
“vision” allows each image to behave as an open-ended statement. The
setting and characters of each picture can appeal to the viewer’s
psychology, inviting one to develop questions about what is depicted and
ultimately draw one’s own conclusions about the meaning of the work.
The suggested narrative and viewer interpretation is key to the
interplay between the artist and his audience. Ghost Gallery - "Chromatic: A Watercolour Exhibition" featuring Seattle artists Braden Duncan, Chandler Woodfin, Levi Hastings, Rich M Stevens and Siolo Thompson. Catering and Cocktails by Wonder Lust Catering, the creative culinary effort of Chef Mike Stamey.Joe Bar - "We are Witness" by Lindsey Rae Gjording. A collection of multimedia art and photography that
has varying shades of meaning and is only now making sense as it forms
itself into the whole. Sight and sightlessness. Women as worship. Blind
by gold leaf. The acknowledgement that sometimes by seeing you are not just a viewer but a witness.Ltd Gallery - "Deep Pulls" (encore)PettiRosso - Gina Tolentino, paintings inspired by the flora and fauna of the oceans, as well as vintage burlesque costumes, circus life, and high fashion.True Love
Gallery - "Art Fusion" featuring old and new works from Starheadboy, Joseph Brooks, Claudio Duran, Narboo and Aaron Winnenberg. Opening night party will include a live, collaborative piece by all the artists.Also check out new work at Americana, Apocalypse
Tattoo, Blindfold
Gallery, Caffe Vita, Capitol Cider, Cupcake Royale, Front Seat Gallery,High 5 Pie,In-Arts Collective,Laughing
Buddha,Online Cafe, Paris Eastside, PCNW, Poco Wine + Spirits,Retrofit Home,SAAM, Saints Gallery,STart Wall Project, SugarPill, Vermillion, and more!

"Transmission" at the Mercury,
Thursday, 10 July from 9.30pm til late. Featuring Seattle artist Braden Duncan, vendors Second Law Fabrications, burlesque by Raqs Nocturna, and Tarot Readings by Kari Champoux! Every month we bring you the best in Shoegaze,
post-punk, post-rock and psych music with your hosts DJs ECHO and
Kantrip with guest DJ, Brenan from Jetman Jet Team. You do not have to be a member
for this night, and you do not need a member to sign you in. It is open
to the
public. No dress code. Free for members before 9.30pm, $5 for
non-members. Starts at 9pm and goes
til 2am. The performer will go on around 10.30 and again at 11.30, and
the
artist will be there all night. Come buy art, drinks, hear music and
watch a
sexy lady dance. "Transmission" happens the 2nd Thursday of every
month.

Stasia Burrington @ Twilight Gallery

The West Seattle
Art Walk ~ Thursday, 10 July
from 6-9pm. Selected shows: Twilight Gallery - "Stellar: Evidence of an Alternate Space Program" by Stasia Burrington. “What I’m after – childish wonder, stark beauty, vast loneliness +
absurd simplicity. Exploration, finding comfort in the unknown + active
curiosity. This will be sort of a silly show. I’m not a scientist, or an
astronaut, this is just a portrait of what I thought being a space
explorer was like, when I was 10. I have this desire to touch emptiness, embrace the nonsensical, and lose a sense of proportion. Gadgets, physics and magic create a portrait of an innocent motivation to seek comfort and wonder in the unknown.” ~ StasiaAlso check out new work at Arts West,Click! Design That Fits, The Heartland Cafe, Hotwire
Coffee, Shadowland, Skylark Cafe,Shoofly Pie, West 5, Wild Rose's, Windermere,
and more!

Chris Sheridan @ Bherd Studios

Collagemonauts @ Two Bird Tattoo

The Art Up Phinneywood Art Walk ~ Friday, 11 July from 6-10pm. Selected shows:Avanti Art & Design - "6th Annual 30x30 Challenge" Join us for The 6th Annual 30/30 challenge presenting
works by 30+ Artists, creating 30 pieces in the 30 days of June,
featuring over 1000 pieces; paintings & mixed media on canvas &
paper, photography, 3D sculpture & more!Bherd Studios - "Inner Beauty" by Chris Sheridan & Aaron Jasinski. Chris Sheridan and Aaron Jasinski explore the idea of
inner beauty from dramatically different angles while carrying the same
message: true beauty consists of more than just the typical trappings of
our society.Echo Echo - "(We're All Stars Now) In the Gnome Show"It's a gnome themed show! Haven't you always wanted to
be completely surrounded by gnomes? We have! Garden gnomes, sculpted
gnomes, painted gnomes, pictures of gnomes, anything and all things
GNOME! Join the Echo crew and a host of guest artists for this extremely gnomey event!Quadrapus - "The Tom Robbins Series" by Erin Sayer. Minneapolis artist Erin Sayer showcases her large scale oil paintings based on the novels of
Seattle's own guru and fellow freak, Tom Robbins. Two Bird Tattoo - "Collagemonauts in Action" Join us at Two Birds Tattoo during the monthly
Greenwood/Phinney Artwalk for a night of chaos and creativity with the
Collagemonauts. The 'Nauts will have their art on display but they also
invite you to sit down with them and make art. Bring your own supplies
or just wing it. We'll have some extras to share.Urban Light Studios - "Wake in Progress" by Stephen Crowe, an ongoing visual adaptation of James Joyce’s "Finnegans Wake", perhaps the most difficult work of modernist fiction,
composed in the fluid, shifting language of dreams. Wake in Progress
translates the unique text into a fusion of styles and imagery from the
history of visual art, from cave paintings to
comic books, in a joyfully anarchic collision of high and popular
culture. The resulting collection straddles the line between a series of
independent images and a sequential narrative, in which recurring
motifs and developing styles translate the most complex novel of the
20th Century into an evolving story in pictures.

"Heaven and Earth VI: As Above So Below" at Carkeek Park, hosted by CoCA, Saturday, 12 July from 2-5pm. In collaboration with Seattle Parks and Recreation and
the Carkeek Park Advisory Council, the Center on Contemporary Art
(CoCA) presents an exhibition of temporary artwork in the forest of
Carkeek Park. Sixteen intrepid artists were asked to create site-specific art within the urban forest of Carkeek Park. Come join us in celebrating this unique exhibition! At the opening, the artists will be there for a meet and greet, and you
will have a chance to be some of the first to witness the unveiling of
this year's art. The exhibition runs until October 20th, so
please come back anytime until then to enjoy this amazing exhibit. Come,
interact, and be a part of the art.

Wedgewood Art Festival

"The 9th Annual Wedgewood Art Festival" at Our Lady of the Lake Parish & School, Saturday & Sunday, 12-13 July. Featuring over 60 local artists and craftsmen as well as music, food, face painting, and more!

The Georgetown Art Attack ~ Saturday 12 July from
6-9pm. This month is the Georgetown Carnival from noon-10pm, to coincide with the art walk! Selected shows: Eight and Sand - "Icons of Horror" by Reed Carpenter. There are certain objects that if viewed by themselves
appear innocuous, perhaps almost comical...but to those who have been
raised watching horror films, to those who delight in the tingles of the
spine, a simple hockey mask can immediately bring up memories of a film
half-seen through the fingers, popcorn spilling from
the lap as the bodycount rises. This show explores the idea of horror
movie icons, items that even seen in the light of day can pull you right
back to that feeling you got seeing Jason lumber out of the darkness
for the first time, seeing the Cenobites half-shrouded in darkness
promising secrets no mortal should know. Through a variety of mediums, a
handful of these objects are presented here...what memories do these
bring back for you?

Krab
Jab Studios - "The Dark Woods: Roots of the Fairy Tale." Stepping off the Path… Before asphalt, glass and electric light, there was the Forest. Featuring Alice Dufeu, Allen Williams, Amy Brown, Carly Mazur, David Thierree, Drew Tucker, Forest Rogers, Heather
Hudson, Jason Engle, Jeremy Hush, Julia Jeffrey, Masha Sardari, Melissa Benson, Olivier Villoingt, Sandra Buskirk,
Siolo Thompson, Stefanie Vega, Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, Thomas Dodd, Tory Taber, Travis Lewis, Yoann Lossel, Yuko
Ishii, and Yvette
Endrijautzki. LxWxH
Gallery - "Cullom Gallery featuring Ellen Ziegler". Cullom Gallery,
formerly in the International District neighborhood of Seattle, has
forged new ground via online and pop-up events, specializing in mobile
happenings and new ways of regarding the space of a gallery. This
month, Cullom Gallery will present Seattle artist Ellen Ziegler. Ellen Ziegler's solo exhibition, Vermilion, features a new series of
large and small-scale drawings rendered with red transfer paper, an
electrically-charged stylus, and gouache applied through punctured
stencils. The series is an exploration of unrestrained, intuitive mark
making, as well as a visceral embrace of the color vermilion’s rich
visual power and its many-fold associations to geology, culture,
biology, and art history. Ziegler’s drawings read as a micro/macro rush
across the page, offering fleeting associations to ancient human
imagery, microscopic forms, synaptic maps, and celestial space.LxWxH Subscription Project - "Wavelength." June's box set from LWH is a music box!! Featuring a 7" lathe cut square record by Emily Pothast and David Golightly of Hair and Space Museum. This record comes bound in a
paperboard/fabric case that folds up into a 3D pyramid with printed
surfaces. Also featured is musician Garek Jon Druss,
who has made a series of wave form diagrams in watercolor using a
Monophonic synthesizer, subtractive synthesis, and a twin oscillator
wave form as a signal source and conceptual foundation. The result is a
visually compelling drawing and painting of the aesthetics of sound. Your art comes in a beautifully hand-crafted box made by Steve Leroux! Only 2 boxes were still available the last time I checked!Also check out new work at9lb Hammer,Artcore Tattoo, Belle & Whissel,Fantagraphics
Bookstore,Georgetown Arts & Cultural Centre, Georgetown Atelier, Georgetown Trailer Park Mall, Nautilus
Studios, Smarty Pants, Totally Blown
Glassworks, Two Tartes Cafe, Wax Expressions,
and more!

The University District Art Walk ~ Friday, 18 Julyfrom
6-9pm. Selected shows:Gargoyles Statuary - "Spleandours of the Woodlands" a woodland-themed group show featuring Braden Duncan, Corey Skillman, Heidi Estey, and more!Trabant
Coffee & Chai - "The Fine Art of Nicolas Cage" Do you like Nicolas Cage? Do you like art? Have you
always, secretly, in the deepest darkest part of your subconscious heart
of hearts really wanted to see an artistic tribute to one of the
coolest actors around? We thought so! That's why you're invited to
witness this spectacular event! If you missed the exhibit in Georgetown last month, never fear! The entire show is coming to the U District for the next 3 months! Also see new work atBC Surf + Sport,Boulevard Grocery, Cafe Allegro,Cafe
Solstice, Chaco Canyon Cafe, Daisy Sky Studio, Herkimer Coffee, Lucid Gallery, Moksha, University Business Center,Zoka Coffee, and more! Don't forget to stop by Boulevard Grocery for a bag of
fresh-roasted coffee hand-painted by a local Seattle artist!

"POTW! A Poster of the Week Exhibit"at St John's Bar & Eatery, hosted by Ghost Gallery, Saturday, 19 July from 8-11pm. The Art of Music Series is curated by Aaron Huffman (Art Director at The Stranger) and Laurie Kearney (Owner, Ghost Gallery). The first show in this series features 27 local and regional artists
that have had their gig poster designs listed in The Stranger's Poster
of the Week (POTW) column. Each artist will exhibit their
chosen poster design along with a recent work of art. Originals and
edition prints for most of the work will be available for sale
throughout the duration of the exhibit.

"The Sunset Red XIV: The Art of Casey Brookbush" at the Sunset Tavern, Saturday, 19 July from 9pm-late. Summer has arrived, and the 6th
Annual Casey Brookbush Rock Art Display is just around
the corner! All persons everywhere are invited to join us for the
next chapter in Casey's ongoing celebration of rock n' roll artistry for
the eyes & ears. Auditory entertainment features local bands covering some of rock's most epic albums: Pink Floyd's "Animals," Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy," and brand new from C-Leb & The Kettle Black, "Flat Black"! Visual entertainment features Casey's newest rock-inspired paintings!

ONGOING:

The SAAM is featuring "Deco Japan: Shaping Art & Culture 1920-1945"Jazz.
Gin. Short hair and short skirts. The modern girl. The rise of
film, and the advent of skyscrapers and air travel. After World War I,
the world was changing rapidly. With the machine age came an increased
emphasis on speed. The art world answered with Art Deco, which had a
driving energy that
found expression in its use of themes from cultures all over the world,
wild appropriation of other art forms, and graphic designs with fast
lines that could be adapted and used on everything from housewares to
posters, and for everything from politics to advertising. By World War
II, Art Deco had left its mark on almost every medium of visual art.Through 19 October. (from www.seattleartmuseum.org)

"Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical." Meet
the mystics—the four artists who, in the late 1930s and ‘40s,
became known as the Northwest School of modern art. Fed by one another’s
passions and talents, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and
Guy Anderson sought to create art that consciously responded to the
world events around them. All saw art as a form of spiritual quest. All
were influenced by the Northwest’s swirling mix of Native American and
Asian traditions. Soon, they were known in New York and across the
country—regional artists whose visions, for a time, were universal. Show
runs thru 7 September.

Ken Price @ the Henry

The Henry
Art Gallery is currently hosting"Inside/Outside" by Ken Price in the North Galleries. The Henry is pleased to present a focused exhibition of works by Ken
Price (U.S., 1935 – 2012) dating from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s
from the Henry’s permanent collection. Central to the exhibition is Heat Wave,
a portfolio of prints developed in conjunction with Black Sparrow
Graphic Arts that illustrates a compilation of poems by prolific poet
and fiction writer Charles Bukowski (U.S., born Germany 1920 – 1994).
The portfolio was produced in 1995, a year after Bukowski’s death and is
comprised of 15 prints on paper in an edition of 170. Widely considered
a cult hero, in his writing Charles Bukowski depicted the depravity of
American urban life, leading Time magazine to call him “the laureate of American lowlife” in the late 1980s. The other works included in the exhibition highlight aspects of Ken
Price’s figurative production, as well as his long-standing investment
in ceramics, drawing, and print-making. The pieces are tightly framed,
everyday representations of urban and rural scenes, rendered in a
playful and colorful manner. They recall cartoons or graphic novels,
appearing familiar at first, but uncanny upon closer inspection. A Los Angeles-based artist, Ken Price is known primarily as a
sculptor and a printmaker. He is also widely recognized for his
abstract large-scale ceramic sculptures. (from henryart.org)

The Frye Art Museum isfeaturing Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930. This exhibition brings
together for the first time the work of two of the most influential
artists of the twentieth century, Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904-1988)
and Qi Baishi (Chinese, 1864-1957). Comprising drawings, ink paintings,
calligraphic works, and sculptures from the University of Michigan
Museum of Art, the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, and
private and public collections, it presents forty-three works by Noguchi
and twenty-three by Qi Baishi. The exhibition and its accompanying
publication document the period of six months that Noguchi spent in
Beijing and shed new light on the little-known relationship between the
two artists.”(from fryemuseum.org) The
Frye also hosts an art lecture series every Thursday night.

With this
much going on, you couldn't possibly complain that there's nothing to do in
Seattle!